My mom took me to buy a dress the weekend before. If you don’t know, I really don’t like shopping all too much—and even less when it’s for dresses of any kind, let alone prom dresses. But I ended up finding a really nice, really simple floor-length tan dress (and on the cheap, shhhh). I even went so far as to get my hair professionally done, which I’d never done before. Now that cost more than the dress did.

One of my classmates hosted a pre prom event at his house, which basically involved finger foods and photos. The moment I got there, my date’s mom came out like the paparazzi and took a million photos (no really, it was terrifying: she had her shutter mode set so that the camera took 8 photos per click). My date won points with my parents by being 1) asian, 2) polite, and 3) nicely dressed.

Actual prom was held on a boat, which was pretty fun, and the food was so good. Unfortunately, the guy who was serving me only gave me like, 3 tiny slices of steak, which was most certainly not enough. So I forced my date to go back and get some more for me so that I wouldn’t look like a pig. He was kind enough to actually do it. Because I’m not all that into dancing, most of the rest of prom was spent hanging out and talking to my classmates and friends. And that’s a lot more fun than it sounds, I promise.

After prom was…an experience. This is my third post that involves the topic of alcohol, because there was so much alcohol at after prom. Well, no, not at after prom. In the limo on the way to after prom; kids were smart enough not to bring alcohol into the actual venue. Unfortunately, this meant that many kids drank a lot in the extremely short amount of time it took to get to the venue, so people were drunk off there asses at after prom. My date and I were playing it cool and kind of sitting back and laughing at all the drunk people.

Despite all of that, it was a fun night. My date actually told me, “You know, I feel really accomplished now. I never thought I’d make it this far in life.” Funny guy.